[AI Seminar Series] Charting the Landscape of Ethical AI - webinar #2

[Vassilis Tsotras]

Colleagues,

the UCR Graduate Division is organizing a series of three webinars 
titled "Charting the Landscape of Ethical AI". The series is 
co-sponsored by the RAISE at UCR Institute and the Office of Research and 
Economic Development. The second webinar will be on February 21st, 
9-10:30am.

Please find below details about the webinar and the Zoom info.

Sincerely,

V. Tsotras

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_Please join us for the next presentation in the 2024-2025 seminar 
series Charting the Landscape of Ethical AI. _

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_We are delighted to welcome Dr Bernd Carsten Stahl, Professor of 
Critical Research in Technology at the School of Computer Science  [1]of 
the University of Nottingham [2]_

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_Dr Carsten Stahl will be presenting February 21st, 9-10:30am, on 
Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on 
the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies.  Smart information 
systems (SIS) are systems that incorporate artificial intelligence 
techniques, in particular machine learning and big data analytics. These 
raise significant hopes, for example to better understand and cure 
diseases, but also to revolutionise transport, to optimise business 
processes or reduce carbon emissions. At the same time, they raise many 
ethical and social concerns, ranging from worries about biases and 
resulting discrimination to the distribution of socio-economic and 
political power and their impact on democracy. _

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_Drawing on the findings of the SHERPA project (www.project-sherpa.eu 
[3]), the presentation will suggest that one perspective to better 
understand these systems and their social and ethical consequences is to 
use the metaphor of an ecosystem to describe them, a metaphor already 
widely used in the policy discourse on AI. The talk will analyse what 
the use of the ecosystem metaphor means for the evaluation of ethical 
issues of smart information systems and which conclusions can be drawn 
from it and how these can inform recommendations for policymakers and 
other stakeholders. _

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_The presentation is based on the material developed in a book, which is 
freely available from:_

_https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-69978-9 [4]_

_Please register for this webinar here: 
https://ucr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_asrHqtuaSr284Qzk_gI6ew#/registration 
[5]_

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Dena Plemmons, Ph.D.

Director

Research Ethics Education Program

Adjunct Associate Professor

Graduate Division

University of California

Riverside, CA  92521

Voice: (951) 827-4312; (on campus: 2-4312)

e-mail: dena.plemmons at ucr.edu

website: https://graduate.ucr.edu/research-ethics [6]

Pronouns: She, Her, Hers [7]

_Sent from remote office: While it often suits me to email after 
hours/on weekends, I do not expect a response outside of your own 
working hours._

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Links:
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[1] 
https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2Fcomputerscience%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw17wgNXBgxTb_bjRJVSqnA6
[2] 
https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw01fubRC84WumZq8MzHSCRh
[3] http://www.project-sherpa.eu
[4] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-69978-9
[5] 
https://ucr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_asrHqtuaSr284Qzk_gI6ew#/registration
[6] https://graduate.ucr.edu/research-ethics
[7] https://pronouns.org/
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